Female Leadership

Male vs. Female Leadership

Due to social roles that each gender has, from past to now man has been portrayal and accepted eligible in high status related occupations whereas woman has been shown secondary and subordinate occupations as teacher, nurse and housewife. Life conditions and economic circumstances as a result of Second World War got worsened and economy shifted from production sectors to services sectors. In this time period women preferred to join workforce to support household economy and woman labor ratio increased rapidly. And also improving education level and changing social norms has strenghtened place of the woman in workforce.

Taking into account Leadership styles whether gender has effective role in leadership is controversial

Then I decided to search for the relationship between ‘personality’ and ‘leadership’. There was an important study about this point. In 1999, Kakadapse has done a research in Cranfield Business School about men and women’s leadership success and as a result they found actually their successes are equal but it can be change up to their personality and loyalty to institution. In the recent past, Eagly and Johnson’s (1990) gender differences in leadership behavior research results provide that women leaders are more democratic and participant despite men are more autocratic and overbearing and women are care more about human relationships. Also, Bernard Bass was mention about female leaders differences tan male leaders and he wrote that, female leaders are more emphasis on friendships, relationships, flexible, tolerant toward workers than male leaders. I think these characteristics of female leaders can increase the workers

According to Gardiner and Tiggemann’s (1999) research result, there is a significant difference between male and female leaders. Women leaders have more interpersonal relationship-oriented style and task-oriented style than men. Also they support that interpersonal relationship-oriented style are more in predominantly female industry like children’s education and no gender difference in male dominant industry like automotive industry. I think this kind of studies and results cause to strengthen some prejudice toward women. Today, women have become an important part of the labor force , differently from men they face many obstacles in the working life . Ruble and others (1984), in their research, women are facing. They found that the obstacles in the way : Gender stereotypes and determined by sex , creating obstacles for women in working life , and they seek to protect those patterns. Creating equal opportunities for women in employment are in a position to put against this obstacle to be successful. The first of these obstacles; historically been occupied by men employed habits is because of the very high prestigious business with. Secondly; due is determined by gender stereotypes and sex, many women in male -specific that is breaking the courage of thought about business. As I stated in my writing before, I think success in work is not about gender it is mostly connected with perseverance,